By Stephen Kangal September 11, 2013 The heart and soul, indeed the single most important determining factor in the calculation of the quantum of property taxation for each property is the year in which the requisite rental value -driven valuation was completed and applied. Finance Minister Larry Howai alluded to the fact that by the … Continue reading There’s is No Solace in the Land and Building Taxes Regime
By Sean Douglas September 10, 2013 – newsday.co.tt
By Raffique Shah August 31, 2013 I choose to reflect on the nation’s Independence anniversary through the prism of a glass half-full rather than half-empty. We endure so many negatives in this country—our daily dosage of murder, lawlessness from top to bottom, pillage of the national purse—that if we did not know how to laugh … Continue reading Give thanks, Trini
By Andre Bagoo September 1, 2013 – newsday.co.tt PARLIAMENT will meet this week to vote on unprecedented legislation seeking to reform local government by introducing a system of proportional representation. The reforms were unveiled by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar at a post-Cabinet media briefing on Thursday. It is proposed that aldermen — who are currently … Continue reading Proportional representation major change in TT politics
By Raffique Shah August 24, 2013 Not since late Commissioner of Police Jules Bernard publicly declared, “I’m a toothless bulldog!” have I heard so many outlandish statements coming from the mouths of senior officers of the Police Service. “Criticism hurts,” screams Acting CoP Stephen Williams. Yet, Williams and his most senior officers say and do … Continue reading Comic cops
Newsday’s Editorial August 25, 2013 – newsday.co.tt IT was the height of irresponsibility for OWTU leader, Ancel Roget, to be among a group of masked, black-clad protesters participating in an illegal demonstration at the Halls of Justice on Wednesday, that had panicked Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mervyn Richardson, into fearing the makings of another attempted … Continue reading Irresponsible!
By Suzanne Mills August 09, 2013 – newsday.co.tt I’m beginning to believe that President Anthony Carmona thinks he is still a judge, that Trinidad and Tobago is his courtroom and that we are all before him on a charge. “Madam,” he chided Opposition Whip, Marlene McDonald last Friday as he addressed the opening of Parliament, … Continue reading All hail king Carmona
By Dr. Kwame Nantambu July 25, 2013 The “not guilty” verdict in the George Zimmerman case brings to the fore the twin-headed problem that confronts America today, namely, law versus the race question. At the outset, it must be stated quite equivocally that the race question was intrinsically rooted in the Civil Rights Movement of … Continue reading Law versus the race question in America
By Frances Cudjoe Waters July 18, 2013 – huffingtonpost.com “A black man has no rights which the white man is bound to respect.” — Sup. Ct. C.J. Roger Taney, Dred Scott Decision, 1857 On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger Taney and the United States Supreme Court put into words what America had been putting … Continue reading Zimmerman Verdict — Where Do We Go From Here?
By Stephen Kangal July 10, 2013 Warner chose the maximum advantage-minimum cost political strategy to enhance and repair his damaged post-FIFA image and to restore the political status quo ante- the Palmiste debacle. All that he is alleged to have committed and not proven took place outside of the jurisdiction of T&T within the largessse … Continue reading The Charge of the Warner Brigade